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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will not recognize the legitimacy of the so-called elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). PACE President Anne Brasseur made such a statement on Friday, Ukrinform’s correspondent reported. “I deplore the decision of the...

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has called disgraceful and dangerous the use of insignia “Press” by Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov who fired in Donetsk at the positions of Ukrainian forces in a helmet with the inscription “Press.” Mijatovic wrote this on her Twitter page. “Disgraceful...

“Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry initiated criminal proceedings against actor Mikhail Porechenkov under Art. 260, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.” – says the Minister of Interior Affairs Arsen Avakov Mikhail Porechenkov arrived to Donetsk as part of the armed gang, personally took part in the shooting at the units...

French President Francois Hollande, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have welcomed the gas agreements reached between Ukraine, Russia and the EU, the press service of the Ukrainian president has reported. “During a phone conversation, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed that the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction support Arseniy Yatseniuk as new prime minister on the condition of the detailed coordination of a coalition agreement. He said this at a meeting with MPs elected from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper reported. Poroshenko...

One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and four more have been injured in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas in the past 24 hours. Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing on Friday. “One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed in...

The European Commission has estimated the value of trilateral agreements reached in Brussels on October 30 regarding the terms of Russian gas supplies to Ukraine until March 31, 2015 at $4.6 billion. Such calculations on the value of the “winter gas package” have been released by the European Commission, Ukrinform’s...

Oleh Liashko’s Radical Party has expressed its willingness to participate in a parliamentary coalition, according to a statement released by the party’s press service. The party insists that the coalition agreement take into account several provisions. They believe that a new coalition government must ensure the integrity and unitary...

A column of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has delivered the so-called “humanitarian aid” to Donetsk and Luhansk – with 50 trucks entering each of the two cities, TASS has reported. “The Russian humanitarian convoy of approximately a hundred vehicles previously divided into two columns. Fifty trucks brought to...